Aside from a template edit, will we be able to edit the color of mentions?  As they are now I find them far too dark and distracting when reading a post.

Yeah, I didn't like the styling either. It's the pre/post spacing that looks off to me.  All of this can be changed in custom.css though so it's not to much trouble (survives upgrades, etc)  

@Square Wheels I agree we should be able to pick the colour

It doesn't even look like it's part of the sentence.  If it's not an option, then I'll edit it with custom.css.

The background color is a theme setting.

4 hours ago, Rikki said:

The background color is a theme setting.

Can we remove the @ display easily too? The @ to me is a twitter thing but the blue box says it's a mention already so redundant to me. Just need it when calling the names but not for display for me. Thanks!

35 minutes ago, chilihead said:

Can we remove the @ display easily too? The @ to me is a twitter thing but the blue box says it's a mention already so redundant to me. Just need it when calling the names but not for display for me. Thanks!

That wouldn't be that easy to do because it's actually part of the post. I just tried playing with the :first-letter psuedo-selector to hide it, but it treats punctuation differently and so will apply to both the @ and the first letter of the name. You could probably do a javascript controller to remove it if you wanted to go to that length.

Thanks. In this case I will leave as is. Not that big of deal.

1 hour ago, Rikki said:

That wouldn't be that easy to do because it's actually part of the post. I just tried playing with the :first-letter psuedo-selector to hide it, but it treats punctuation differently and so will apply to both the @ and the first letter of the name. You could probably do a javascript controller to remove it if you wanted to go to that length.

That's cool that a member suggested something and you tested it.  That's why I like this software.

The mention system seems greatly improved in 4.1, I can barely use it in 4.0 - using FireFox but on here it loads as it should.

I wonder why? Chrome is absolutely fine.

I love mentions but it doesn't always work sometimes and the names don't appear when they should.

@Square Wheels @AutoItScript @Licensecart @Rikki @chilihead @Joey_M @Dorian Blue (names are modifiable too)

Users can style mentions by theirself. Admins have no control about it.

Oh that's actually pretty cool. The editing of the names I mean....it reminds me of facebook @querschlaeger

Is the following cool too?

@Charles

I mentioned you (Dorian Gray; hold the mouse over the mention) but renamed the name to Charles (notice: I'm just a normal user, I have no admin or moderator permissions here).

@querschlaeger this is not a bug or security issue. All you are doing is being purposely annoying and a user can find about a million ways to be purposely annoying. There's no way we or anyone one else can do to stop annoying users other than ban them.

10 minutes ago, Charles said:

There's no way we or anyone one else can do to stop annoying users other than ban them.

The post filter could remove additional (user added) style attributes from system codes (quotes, code box, mentions, ...).

@Dorian Gray hmmm....

1 hour ago, querschlaeger said:

The post filter could remove additional (user added) style attributes from system codes (quotes, code box, mentions, ...).

Then you could just style a wrapper around it. Always ways to be annoying That's what the moderators are for.